Despite the many lovely products (cilantro, pumpkins, marijuana, +c.) the flora of the earth provide us, plants are pretty terrifying. From the hemlock that killed Socrates to the white snakeroot that (indirectly) killed the mother of Abe Lincoln, the bizarre botanical world is on display at the Conservatory of Flowers in the exhibit “Wicked Plants: Botanical Rogues & Assassins.”

Honoring Amy Stewart‘s 2009 book Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, the exhibit features plants that incapacitate, intoxicate, and even annihilate in a spooky, overgrown garden straight out of the Victorian era. You can see more than 30 species of very, very bad plants — ones that have put people underground, and ones that you might recognize from your own yard. But if you love me at all, just do me a favor: Don’t touch anything, okay?

Sarah M. Smart - Red-Light Special

Sarah M. Smart was summoned into being on a distant ice cream planet
through an unholy union of Two-Buck Chuck and unicorns. They sent her to Indianapolis and then the University of Missouri's School of Journalism
to spread peace and big hair. Perpetually in mourning for the comma, she
has worked for a variety of print media, including Indianapolis
Monthly, Global Journalist, and Vox. Since moving
to San Francisco for the booming dumpster-diving scene, she has been an
online operative for such fine folks as Horoscope.com , Neo-Factory, and
Academy of Art University. After a day of cat-feeding, hat-making,
dog-walking, vegan baking, and daydreaming about marrying rich, all she
wants is a margarita as big as her face.

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